Educating Through Art

A talk about how education through art helps foster curiosity, critical thinking, empathy, and visionary thinking in school students.

The lecture will be held online with synchronous interpretation to Russian and English. After registering, we will send you the link.

Why is knowledge of art history useful in school education? Why should this also involve practical workshops and activities? How can public and private museums collaborate in this education? What is the role of museum educational services? How can we help students develop an interactive relationship with works of art in order to enhance and understand their educational functions?

Photo: Claudia Laus, Department of Communication and Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Students from the two-year course in Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna are leading and experiencing a special animated tour at MAMbo—Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, which they designed themselves for their thesis research.

Art must be used for its pedagogical functions: as a paradigm of meaning for an “openness” to the world capable of being based on the constant redefinition of existence and as a necessary component for getting used to changing our perceptual attitude towards things as quickly as possible. And consequently, as Umberto Eco put it in one of his works, also to changing our sensitivity, our emotional behaviour, the very coordinates of moral judgements, the ability to accept and define human situations, the ability to move in a social context that undergoes the backlash of other changes.

Official partner of the GES-2 House of Culture mediation programmе.

The lecture will therefore address the training path, role and function of the cultural mediator, conceived as an interactive intermediary between the work and the public in a particular sense that emphasises the hermeneutic aspects: how to narrate a work of art using the interweaving of words and images to enhance the interpretative and intersubjective practices of the meaning and significance of each visual text.

Speaker

Silvia Spadoni — tenured professor of Didactics of Artistic Languages for the two-year specialisation course in Art Education and Artistic Heritage Mediation and of Pedagogy and Art Education for the three-year course in Communication and Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Co-founder of the Education Department at the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna.